
Living next to a volcano (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
While on a Fulbright in Java (to study Islam, mysticism, Advanced Indonesian, Javanese gamelan, and martial arts), I lived in a Christian community (next to a volcano!) and had the opportunity to hear first-hand about their fears as a religious minority. So it was with sadness that I read this week about growing religious tensions in Indonesia after the Christian governor of Jakarta was
suspected of blasphemy.